Munchen on Pumpkin
Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Lexington, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
6.80
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft: Poured a burnt orange with a white head. Aroma is spices, malty. Taste is nutmeg, spices, pumpkin, balancing malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle thanks to hershiser2! Clear amber, medium off-white head, good retention. Aroma of pumpkin spice, toast, pumpkin, cherry. Taste is toast, spice, pumpkin. Crisp, lingering spice. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz. bottle from Wegmans, Niagara Falls. Pours a crystal clear amber color with a large off white head and great retention. Light lacing. Faint spiced aroma. Nicely spiced pumpkin pie flavor, without being in your face. A good mix of pumpkin ale and Vienna lager flavors. Medium body with low carbonation. Subtle and easily repeatable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sort of hazy deep copper and bronze coloured body with a thinnish, one to perhaps at most, two centimetre tall off-white head that fades fairly quickly. Aroma of light squash, some subtle pumpkin pie spices, with the allspice and canella the strongest and a kick of very mild hops in the nose as well and at the end a bit of the alcohol warmth is picked up. Medium-bodied; Strong allspice and nutmeg flavour at first with a bit more of earthy and nutty malt profile than I was expecting with some malted barley as well and a dash of floral bitterness coming through that shows way stronger than any hops here, but there is also not much sugars to balance, with a hint of caramelised sugar note on the end, but the squash and especially the spices are way stronger. Aftertaste shows the nice pumpkin, squash and spice components with a little bit of a nutty and earthy/rustic quality towards the end, but the rest of the flavours are a bit stronger in a good way to overpower the more earthy notes here, with a defined toffee and canella note at the end that makes this robust, balanced and quite crisp still, while being easy-ish drinking, especially for a lager that gives me sort of renewed hope in the Macro taking over Smaller Independent breweries philosophy. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Harris Teeter in Arlington (Columbia Pike), Virginia on 18-September-2021 for US$1,87 swith a best by date of '11-Novemer-2021', sampled at my house here in Washington on 13-October-2021.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Mild pumpkin nose. Clear amber, medium head.Pumpkin, fain5 hint 9f cardamom, possibly ginger. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Sampled warm while camping. I ran out of ice. Mild an in9ffensive.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle pours a clear amber with some head that faded to a single ring. Nose has all that pumpkin spice, clove, nutmeg, ginger, caramel, malt, butterscotch. Flavor hits with malt first, then ginger and nutmeg, root veg, roasted carrots, caramel. Finishes with the spice. It's a pumpkin beer.